Tandoori
#bb5c4d
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#bb5c4d
RGB
187, 92, 77
OKLCh
58.7% 0.126 30.5°
CIELAB (D50)
50.9, 38.2, 27.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.2; on black, Lc -31.5. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 29.0 and 32.1 and 40.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.42:1 — large text only
Black text
4.75:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.75:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ba5b4c is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#bb5c4d
protanopia
#6c6c4e · ΔE00 29.0
deuteranopia
#818148 · ΔE00 32.1
tritanopia
#959500 · ΔE00 40.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMartian Ironearth at ΔE00 1.285: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Martian IronearthΔE00 1.285 · #c15a4b
- Flame PeaΔE00 1.747 · #be5c48
- Too Hot to HandleΔE00 1.779 · #bf6153
- Mecca OrangeΔE00 1.813 · #bd5745
- Safflower BarkΔE00 1.853 · #bb5548
- Chocolate Oatmeal CookieΔE00 2.116 · #bb5544
- Ginger SpiceΔE00 2.213 · #b65d48
- Red RiverΔE00 2.382 · #b95543
- Best of the BunchΔE00 2.494 · #bd5442
- Electric BrownΔE00 2.675 · #b56257
- Ant RedΔE00 2.702 · #b05d4a
- Hot and SpicyΔE00 2.733 · #b35547
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.